{"id":4156,"date":"2024-08-14T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T16:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spiceworks.com\/spiceworld\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=4156"},"modified":"2025-10-30T13:11:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:11:31","slug":"jim-rapoza-2","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/www.spiceworks.com\/spiceworld\/speaker\/jim-rapoza-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rapoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\">Jim Rapoza, VP &amp; Principal Analyst at Aberdeen Strategy &amp; Research has been covering (and using) application development for over 25 years, and has spoken on DevOps and application development trends at industry conferences and events. Recent Aberdeen surveys and research have looked at the impact of cloud native and Kubernetes, artificial intelligence and both DevOps and movements away from DevOps practices. 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